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Part of Town Center Promenade sold

FSCJ's Downtown cafe opening.

The Town Center Promenade retail building leased to Aspen Dental and Newk’s Eatery was sold for $5.34 million to Tallahassee Investments LLC and Town Center Investments LLC.

CPC Jacksonville SJTC, part of Promenade developer Core Property Capital of Atlanta, sold the property.

The 7,700-square-foot building at 4520 Town Center Parkway was constructed in 2017. Tallahassee Investments and Town Center Investments are based at the offices of Jacksonville-based Triforce Development LLC. Triforce is led by brothers Paul and Louis Sleiman.

Café Frisch opening at FSCJ Downtown

Florida State College at Jacksonville’s Culinary Arts and Hospitality program is scheduled to host a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning to celebrate the grand opening of Café Frisch.

The simulated restaurant environment, which provides students a hands-on learning experience, was supported by a gift from the Harry Frisch family and the Beaver Street Foundation.

The café allows FSCJ students to showcase their culinary and service talents to the community.

The dining lab is for the Culinary Arts students and is similar to the former Mallard Room when the program was based at the FSCJ North Campus.

The café is at the FSCJ Downtown Campus at 101 W. State St. in Building C, Room 106.

It is open 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday and also has seatings at 6:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday.

Lunch is $7 and dinner is $9.

Reservations are required by calling (904) 633-8151.

Meanwhile, the café at the FSCJ student housing project under development at 20 W. Adams St. will be called 20West Café.

Students from the Culinary Arts program also will be involved with that café, which will be open to the public.

UniFirst seeks concurrency reviews for new facility

UniFirst Corp. applied for Mobility Fee Calculation and Concurrency Reservation certificates for a 57,000-square-foot commercial laundry facility on 5.63 acres in the Perimeter West Industrial Park.

UniFirst said that upon completion of the facility, it will no longer need to lease its branch operation along Haines Street.

UniFirst is based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, near Boston.

Town Center Two foundation work OK’d

The city approved a permit last week for Brasfield & Gorrie to build the foundation for Town Center Two at 5335 Gate Parkway at a project cost of $18 million.

VanTrust Real Estate is developing the six-story, 217,877-square-foot building for lease to Jacksonville-based Web.com Group Inc., which will relocate its headquarters from Flagler Center to Town Center Two.

VanTrust Real Estate will develop the building on 14.1 acres and it will offer 1,200 parking spaces.

Johnson Family YMCA expansion in review

The city is reviewing an expansion for the Johnson Family YMCA at 5700 Cleveland Road.

Mobility Fee Calculation and Concurrency Reservation certificate applications show that the Johnson Family YMCA will build a 4,000-square-foot teen center and 1,775 square feet for office use on 3.55 acres. Plans also show a proposed pool.